Photographing Violence Against Women, Even in Norway
Walter Astrada’s Photos of Violence Against Women - NYTimes.com
►http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/even-in-norway-abuse-and-assault/?partner=rss&emc=rss
He started the project in 2006 in Guatemala, where more than 600 women were murdered that year. He then documented sexual violence in Congo, where hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been brutally raped. In 2010, he focused on female infanticide and the low status of women in India.
But to fully demonstrate that violence against women crosses all economic, cultural, or geographic barriers, Mr. Astrada needed to go to a country with few other social ills.
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